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Gunhild Lorenzen, painting

Gunhild Lorenzen My mother used to paint, and from the moment I was born, she took me with her to her studio. For her, it was the simplest thing, and for me, it was the most wonderful thing. At the age of two, I was so inspired and fascinated by the fantastic colors of my mother's universe that I would imitate her armed with brushes and paper, completely absorbed in my happiness and joy of living....
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Patrick Pawliczek, pottery

Patrick Pawliczek Having studied at the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux, then in Paris, I discovered pottery in the 2000s. So I trained at the Institute of French Ceramics in Sèvres, and went on a course in Japan (Ischoken School in Tajimi) before opening my own studio in Paris...
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Edith Bruic, painting

Edith Bruic Inspired by those of Marguerite Duras, my kitchen & my workshop have become experimental laboratories. What I get from the kitchen is a love of colour. From the confusion of spices and pigments. From analogy between curry and the soil of Haute Provence. My current project retrieves and recycles fruit and vegetable peelings, bones, shells, sand, roots, bark and gives them new life through the process of collage...
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Richard Beasley, painting

Richard Beasley Although I do not have a dedicated art studio, I have a desk together with storage facilities for art materials and finished artwork. However, I am really an alfresco artist, and my ‘studioʼ is wherever I happen to be, and with whatever materials I have with me ...
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Anne Fontana, singer, chorus leader

Anne Fontana It’s no secret : a song’s lyrics are often difficult to comprehend. I always encourage myself to make them approachable. It’s always preferable to start early at the school. I followed the training of a part-time drop-in musician to the school, parallel to my career as a vocalist...
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Joseph Fragoméni (alias Mazarin), tailoring

Joseph Fragoméni Born in Calabria (southern Italy) in 1937… He entered at 10 years old, into training as a seamster and, at 20 years of age, left his homeland to face the Parisian paving stones. He worked from 1960 to 1970 as a cutter & model maker in a leased factory. In 1966, he created the line “loan of the body”...
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Florence Guillot, coffee roasters

Florence Guillot Florence Guillot began her working life as an employee but then had the idea of setting up her own business doing something she knew about from her parents in Châtellerault: coffee roasting. With their support, she decided to set up in business in the Médoc where this activity did not exist...
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Shivranee Hatchootah, ayurvedic cooking

Shivranee Hatchootah I was born in Mauritius, and my parents are of Indian origin. Some years later, I spent two years in India to deepen my knowledge of Ayurveda which is a science which has existed for some 5000 years and has been transmitted orally from generation to generation...
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Sandrine Latronico, bakery products

Sandrine Latronico I had been a mother for eight years and had had enough of industrial food products. So two years ago I started to bake my own cakes. My daughter anyway no longer wanted industrially baked cakes. So at the end of two years, I decided to work not just anywhere like everyone else...
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